Senior Manager Software Engineering

**Role Specific Information** **Job Description** ****About the Role**** As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will be at the forefront of driving technical excellence and innovation within our engineering team. You will collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate our retail offerings.  ****What You’ll Do**** * Drive development, testing, deployments and iterative improvement of product capabilities and features in collaboration with peers across Design, Product Management and Engineering * Apply cutting-edge techniques and deployment methods to create impactful, customer-centric solutions  * Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes * Develop high-quality applications that are secure, easy to operate, difficult to break, and highly observable with measurable results * Lead and manage the entire product application lifecycle, including design, code, infrastructure, data, security and CICD * Establish product engineering and software standards * Set the product vision and drive culture by modeling partnership, collaboration, and technical initiatives and giving/receiving feedback regularly to the teams * Lead technical initiatives across the organization * Manage, mentor and coach a group of engineers, anchors and engineering managers in the team with a lot of empathy and demonstrate hands-on experience in situations embedded on the team as an individual contributor * Effectively balance time between technical leadership and people management * Acquire, retain and develop top and diverse talent * Additional tasks may be assigned Addendum SENIOR MANAGER, BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING * Strong knowledge of build management tools such as Jenkins or Maven * Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT * Extensive Database Design experience including either SQL, PL/SQL * Implementing ETL process with Big Data Technologies * Spark, Python, Scala and Airflow experience * Preferred knowledge of MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop, and Flume * Experience in designing and creating automation workflows and execution * Extensive knowledge of Apache Airflow Developing DAG, Performance tuning of the DAGs and task implementation * Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as REDIS * Good understanding of MPP databases such as Teradata and Netezza * Hands-on lead developer/architect who excels in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment building high quality and high-performance Data Engineering softwar**e**   ****What Skills You Have**** Required * 8+ years of experience in software development * 4+ years of progressive management experience, developing and attracting multiple diverse teams * Expert ability to manage multiple competing priorities * Successful transformation of technical leadership into people leadership * Strong knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies * Experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning * Proven experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) * Expert knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test driven development Preferred * Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field ****Essential Functions**** The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship. * Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section * Ability to comply with dress code requirements * Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation * Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company * Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines * Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel * Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others * Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes * Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs * Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc. * Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units * Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner